Word: riot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eight soldiers at Fort Jackson, S.C., circulated petitions asking the base commander for permission to assemble to discuss the Viet Nam war. Forty-three Negro soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, refused riot duty at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Prisoners at the Presidio of San Francisco staged a sit-down strike to protest stockade conditions and the fatal shooting of a fellow prisoner by a guard. Military personnel have defied orders against taking part in off-post demonstrations while in uniform. Underground newspapers, including The Last Harass, The Shakedown, Open Sights and Fun, Travel and Adventure (FTA) protest...
...following statement was released Tuesday by the Harvard Business School Afro-American Society. The statement endorses the demands of Afro students at the College and asks that the Business School's Riot Plan "be immediately discarded...
...further feel that the Business School's Riot Plan should be immediately discarded as it sets the stage for a possible duplication of the atrocious brutality which occurred last week. It is quite clear that the Riot Plan is a tool of the Business School administration to repress the Black students' inclination to fully express their indignation at some future decisions...
Still, until Saturday no official statement was released by students, faculty or administrators at the Business School. The position of the faculty and administrators was that Pusey's action was consistent with a riot plan which the Business School had issued in February. Therefore, a statement on the events at the College would be redundant and was not really necessary...
After the doors were cleared the police charged students who were standing on the steps of Thayer Hall. About ten Somerville Police charged into the building with shields and riot sticks. During that charge, several policemen pushed Timothy H. S. Venn '72 from his wheelchair onto the cement...